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Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare Hardcover - 2002
by Briggs, Charles L.
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Photograph 1. The headquarters of the Ministry of Health and Public Assistance, in Caracas, is located in the building on the right, overlooking a plaza often occupied by street vendors.
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- Title Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
- Author Briggs, Charles L.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 390
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date December 2, 2002
- ISBN 9780520230316
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University of California Press, January 2003. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. 'Ten years ago, cholera 'raced' through part of eastern Venezuela, moving along social fault lines long in the making. This harrowing and beautifully written account chronicles a complex array of social responses to an epidemic and shows us what an engaged and responsible anthropology can offer those seeking to understand and prevent such plagues--and the injustices that foster them. Stories in the Time of Cholera is sure to have broad appeal within the social sciences and public health, and it should be required reading for public authorities and the press, whose prejudices clearly compounded the injuries meted out by the microbe itself. This is an exceedingly important book.'--Paul Farmer, author of 'Infections and Inequalities' <BR>'Sometimes the historian can only envy the ethnographer's ability to observe and configure complex social and conceptual worlds. This study of cholera…
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